Paul Whelan wrote: > On 22 Aug 2008 at 14:18, Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Martin Clayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:35 PM >> Subject: Re: [clamav-win32] Clamd terminating (Malformed database) >> >> >> >>> In case it's just data corruption I'd delete data\*.cvd and re-run >>> freshclam. >>> >> Ok done - will have to wait and see now !! One thing I noticed - with the >> old files, in the clam log it said: >> Fri Aug 22 10:49:51 2008 -> Loaded 709009 signatures. >> With the new defs, it now says: >> Fri Aug 22 13:57:41 2008 -> Loaded 1113131 signatures. >> >> Does that figure sound right ? If it is then it certainly indicates the >> originals were corrupt after all. >> > > From freshclam, the total of the main and daily is 401,469 (earlier today). > The number > (re)loaded by clamd can be different if you have extra signatures (from > Sanesecurity > etc.), but that number seems way out. You may have some old versions there. > > I would either delete everything and do a complete reinstall, or carefully go > through all > files where the signatures are and remove the old ones. Old versions (<0.93) > also used > subdirectories. > I'd concur with Paul. I use the base plus SaneSecurity signatures, and clamd says: Fri Aug 22 08:16:35 2008 -> Reading databases from c:\Program Files\clamAV\data Fri Aug 22 08:16:39 2008 -> Loaded 423994 signatures.
So yes, 1,113,131 sounds way, way too high-- close to triple normal. Bret _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32
